I
made this animation in the horrible days following, watching from
my East Village rooftop, the WTC towers floating down in their clouds
of dirty gray dust. Trapped on this island, I was perhaps searching
for a place where such things might not happen, a place of digital
peace. But all I see when I look at this now is my unconscious echoing
of those planes crashing into the towers.

This
is another phased loop piece, like Endless
Fountain. You can see that all the birds start off together, but
diverge along their separate paths soon after.

Alessandro Ludovico runs a handsome Italian blog,
Neural.it, that mentions my animation Birds
and Water in his 9-11
entry. The blog has diverse media, cultural, political and science links,
many to sites in English. I give this linkback to what looks like an interesting
site, though this surreal Babelfish
translation of his review leaves me questioning the wild spin he reads into
my piece. What is this volteggi prattling business? Could Birds
and Water'scompanion
animation (Ice Birds), made later that same day, be subconsciously
about the rise and fall of black men birds? I've written back
to Alessandro, maybe he will provide a human translation, or answers to these
questions.

"Also the art on web has found its modalities
of interaction with a how much happened year ago ' Birds and Water ' of web
the Gametone artist can be taken nearly to symbol of the endured moral frustration
from the medium American, crushed in an absurd reorganization of its certainties.
And therefore in the filmato one in shockwave in issue it is assisted to a
metaforico loop in which white men birds that fall systematically to peak
in the water, raising themselves in flight and falling of new after some volteggi
prattling.

Alessandro provided a translation that let me
get the sense of it, I tweaked it for it's English usage:"Also web art
has found its own interaction rules regarding what happened one year ago.
'Birds and Water' made by the web artist Gametone can be taken as a symbol
of the moral frustration of the common American people, with its moral status
absurdly crushed. So in this shockwave animation the user can see at a metaphoric
loop in which white birds rapidly falls in the water, always flying up and
then down again after some chirping gyrations. An escape from terror and an
unconscious refusal of the 'falling' that echoes in every movement of this
uncontaminated digital land." It looks likes Babelfish is not ready for a
translator's job at the UN.